Going Dutch

Steyn Online ^ | 8 August 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Well, it's that time of year again, when the media run their annual stories from Japan about the biggest yearly population fall since records began. From the BBC:

Almost a million more deaths than births were recorded in Japan last year, representing the steepest annual population decline since government surveys began...

Yeah, I already said all that. As I've been writing for twenty bollocking years, the demographic death-spiral is the biggest story of our time. So just give us the sodding numbers:

Japan recorded 686,061 births - the lowest number since records began in 1899 - while nearly 1.6 million people died, meaning for every baby born, more than two people died.

That said, the good news is that in the Dutch province of Limburg there's a bit of a baby boom:

Twee woningen in Weert voor Somalisch asielgezin met vijftien kinderen: huis vinden voor grote families is hels karwei voor gemeenten

Which means, more or less:

Two houses in Weert for a Somali asylum-family with fifteen children: finding a home for large families is a hellish task for municipalities.

Indeed. As any young newlyweds who've tried to find a fifteen-bedroom studio apartment can tell you, it isn't easy. Fortunately, as the second half of that headline informs us, it's no longer your problem, at least if you're an "asylum-family". The Dutch state will provide two houses for you, free of charge.

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TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan

[Rummyfan]

[Salman]

As the "Palestinians" are to Israelis, so the Dutch ruling class to the working class and middle class indigenous population.

Likewise other western European countries.

[Uncle Miltie]

Arab colonialists should be sent packing back to Arabia.

[Spok]

Despite the accusations of genocide, the Palestinian population of Gaza continues to grow. One of those inconvenient facts.

[roadcat]

Arab colonialists should be sent packing back to Arabia.

I suspect that Arabia doesn't want them. Class differences and caste systems. The poorest and worst of the population invade Europe, just like the worst of South America invades the USA, etc.

The political leaders failed their nations, by allowing in the worst peoples. They should only allow in the upper class well-off immigrants who can prove their worth to the nation they arrive in. Instead, you get a bunch of poor criminals who bleed the countries resources dry.

[Axenolith]

“The political leaders failed their nations”

I disagree with that conclusion. The political leaders, in my view, are whole heartedly on board with islam. Being secular themselves and/or merely utilizing a profession of Christianity as window dressing, they see opportunity in the oppressive nature of islam along with its sanctioning of all that is considered sinful to Christianity as long as it is in furtherance of islam. Under islamic rule you can pretty much do ANYTHING to infidels and get a pass. Until there is a reformation at the root, that religion is not compatible with western civilization.

Western European leaders are not looking out for their citizenry in any way, shape or form. They are in the process of happily trading in their current subjects for a new cadre of obedient peons who will flood in and lap up the wealth of the creator citizenry, obediently harry and terrorize those citizens, and leave enough of their progeny so that the converted leadership has a deep pool of infidel subjects for them to enjoy their perversions and subjugation upon for a long dark age...

[Organic Panic]

S hole people make s holes because they like living in s holes. Deport these people.

[AloneInMass]

The Japanese may have given up on babies, but they are not prey to Tombs’s pathetic visions of a land where body-bagged Islamocrones swap amusing Oscar Wilde bons mots over the Ramadan baklava.

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Steyn is gold.

[Albion Wilde]

Arab colonialists should be sent packing back to Arabia.

I realize you're referring to the Palis in Israel. But the folks in the picture just above are, according to Mark's article, Somalisch.

Mark's recent travails have not dulled his extremely sharp wit one iota. If anything, Mann's despicable lawfare beatdown may have honed it.